Audiobus: Use your music apps together.

What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is
an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use
your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite
synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like
GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output
for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a
synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI
keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear.
And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.

ThumbJam love.

I know I’m a little late to the party but I just want to give ThumbJam some love and recommend it to anyone who hasn’t discovered it. Not only is it a fantastic app by itself and very deep (if you want it to be) but it’s great sounding sampled instruments (of which there are many) can be routed to other apps - for example to Fugue Machine through Aum.
Just sayin’.

Comments

@Steaders said:
I know I’m a little late to the party but I just want to give ThumbJam some love and recommend it to anyone who hasn’t discovered it. Not only is it a great app by itself and very deep (if you want it to be) but it’s amazing sounding sampled instruments (of which there are many) can be routed to other apps - for example to Fugue Machine through Aum.
Just sayin’.

I agree totally. An interesting thing about TJ is that even tho it is interapp you can record multiple instances as there are a bunch of different slots that appear in your DAW (how come no one else does that?) my fav sounds are the Shakuhachi, Cello, Viola and Violin, but there are many other good ones. An enormous amount of scales and fun ways of playing (shake, tilt, etc). When I demo iOS to anyone I always show them TJ first and let them play it, They always love it!
And $7, I believe. @Steaders, you did right!

Thanks LinearLineman! 👍🏻 It amazes me how good some of the samples sound for being such small downloads. Sending TJ midi out to Kontakt in my DAW is also super fun and inspiring and really impresses the girls. 😎

@Steaders said:
Thanks LinearLineman! 👍🏻 It amazes me how good some of the samples sound for being such small downloads. Sending TJ midi out to Kontakt in my DAW is also super fun and inspiring and really impresses the girls. 😎

Find the button with a microphone and two notes. This will reveal all the parameters. Plug a microphone into the headphone port. You can now sing into the mic and it plays the sound and scale you have set.If you want to send midi out set it up in the midi settings or hookup a midi interface into the lightning port and send it to your midi destination.

One thing I just remembered that I wanted to ask. I can’t seem to get sustain lock to work. I double tap the sustain pedal at the top left and it opens two tabs at the bottom. I enable sustain lock but it doesn’t hold the sustain.
Am I missing something or is it a bug?

Wait. I just figured it out. It only sustains locks the notes you’re playing while you press it. When you lift sustain lock it will sustain those notes but not the next ones you play. Ignore me. 🤓

@LinearLineman said:
I agree totally. An interesting thing about TJ is that even tho it is interapp you can record multiple instances as there are a bunch of different slots that appear in your DAW (how come no one else does that?)

Some others do that. The iPad Synclavier app has many channels of output I think.

@LinearLineman said:
I agree totally. An interesting thing about TJ is that even tho it is interapp you can record multiple instances as there are a bunch of different slots that appear in your DAW (how come no one else does that?)

Some others do that. The iPad Synclavier app has many channels of output I think.

Another TJ gem for those with hardware MIDI keyboards: you can send MIDI into the app and it will convert your white keys into whatever key/scale you have set in TJ. Essentially your white keys mimic TJ's slots/tines 1:1.

@ALB said:
I just got this. Always on my radar, but finally pulled the trigger. This is very cool, but I don’t seem to be able to send the midi out to other apps in AUM. Help please...

Can you show us the midi output prefs that you have selected?

Thanks for the reply. I should have been more clear. I can get midi out from ThumbJam to an AU instrument when I play the keys (select AUM as output in TJ and AUM as source for the AU), but I cannot get the loop in TJ to send the midi out. I believe that I am missing something very basic.

@ALB said:
I just got this. Always on my radar, but finally pulled the trigger. This is very cool, but I don’t seem to be able to send the midi out to other apps in AUM. Help please...

Can you show us the midi output prefs that you have selected?

Thanks for the reply. I should have been more clear. I can get midi out from ThumbJam to an AU instrument when I play the keys (select AUM as output in TJ and AUM as source for the AU), but I cannot get the loop in TJ to send the midi out. I believe that I am missing something very basic.

I think the loops might be saved as audio not midi. It has been a while. So, I could be wrong.